this chief aim of this paper is to explore the concept of funds of knowledge (fok) in relation to cultural historical activity theory (chat). this study unveils the basic tenets of fok from the lens of activity theory and analyzes pertinent discoveries, key concepts, and scholars’ arguments relating to fok and literacy development over time. the major purpose of this study is to expand the pers...

The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between analytical literacy and computer literacy with creativity and with the role of moderating gender in high school students in secondary period in Guilan province. The method of descriptive research of correlational type and the statistical society included the high school students in secondary period of Guilan province in the first s...

The Association of College and Research Libraries recommends incorporating information literacy (IL) skills across university and college curricula, for the goal of developing information literate graduates. Congruent with this goal, the Departments of Biological Sciences and Information Science developed an integrated IL and scientific literacy (SL) exercise for use in a first-year biology cou...

Although the importance of reading in higher education as an index of success has been highlighted, the metacognitive knowledge or beliefs of graduate students have remained under-researched. This qualitative study reports on a study that, first, examines how graduate students of applied linguistics conceive of academic reading and academic readers in their graduate programs; second, wh...

This study examines the nature and value of undergraduate students’ experiences with the academic library. The data represent responses from more than 300,000 students between 1984 and 2002 to the Col­ lege Student Experiences Questionnaire. Although library use did not appear to make independent contributions to desirable outcomes of college, such experiences were related to important educatio...

BACKGROUND Limited health literacy is associated with worse physical function in cross-sectional studies. We aimed to determine if health literacy is a risk factor for decline in physical function among older adults. METHODS A longitudinal cohort of 529 community-dwelling American adults aged 55-74 years were recruited from an academic general internal medicine clinic and federally qualified ...

As big data and multi-omics analyses are becoming mainstream, computational proficiency and literacy are essential skills in a biologist’s tool kit. All “omics” studies require computational biology: the implementation of analyses requires programming skills, while experimental design and interpretation require a solid understanding of the analytical approach. While academic cores, commercial s...

INTRODUCTION The information literacy status and the use of information technology among students in the globalization age of course plans are very momentous. This study aimed to evaluate the information literacy status and use of information technology among medical students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in 2013. METHODS This was a descriptive-analytical study with cross-sectional...